BOB KRAUSS RESEARCH INDEX

Bob Krauss (1924-2006) wrote for the Honolulu Advertiser for fifty five years, from 1951 through 2006. He did his research the old fashioned way - by talking to people and by churning through microfilm and taking notes on index cards. Over time these cards came to fill 22 card file drawers, stored front and center on Krauss's office desk.

The newspapers Krauss turned to were:

• the Honolulu Advertiser and its predecessor the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (published since 1856)
  
• the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (published under various titles since 1870)
  
• the Maui News (published since 1900)
  
• the Polynesian, (1840-1841, 1844-1864)

  Krauss also indexed information he gathered through personal interviews and correspondence. He annotated most of his index entries with notes and explanations that provide context and information not typically found in formal newspaper indexes.

  The index is by no means comprehensive in subject or time coverage. It largely reflects Krauss's research interests. Nonetheless it provides critical starting points into Hawaiʻi's newspaper literature, covering periods of time and subjects in newspaper titles that have been formally indexed nowhere else.

  STATISTICS:

  • Total articles in database: 44197
  • Total fulltexts in database: 1

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